Democracy and authenticity toward a theory of public justification
In Democracy and Authenticity Professor Howard Schweber examines a basic problem for liberal democracies. When a political entity is characterized by a multitude of identities and values, certain constraints apply to reasons for citizens and public officials to justify coercive political actions. Th...
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Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: consensus liberalism and the challenge of pluralism
- Three versions of the case for constraint: Audi, Rawls, and Larmore
- Subjective standards and the problem of deliberative perfectionism
- Liberalism and the problem of authenticity
- Further reflections on authenticity
- The scope of constraint
- Arguments from consequences: pluralism and the role of culture
- Further arguments from consequences: agonistic democracy and republican virtue
- Fairness as equality
- Fairness as recognition
- The argument from epistemology: claims of equivalence
- Empiricism and public justification
- Toward a theory of public justification